
%0 Journal Article
%A Radford, BJ 
%A Nielsen, RGH 
%A Rhodes, JW 
%T Agents of pollination in sunflower crops on the central Darling Downs, Queensland
%J Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
%D 1979/10/01
%V 19
%N 100
%P 565-569
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/EA9790565
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/EA9790565 
%X Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) were the most frequent insect visitors to flowering sunflower heads on the central Darling Downs. Populations in 42 crops during mid-morning in fine weather averaged 65.3 bees per 100 flowering heads. A range of moth species was observed at night but total moth populations in 33 crops between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. averaged only 3.9 moths per 100 flowering heads. Although Heliothis armigera moths and wind can pollinate sunflowers, insects other than honeybees, and wind, played an insignificant role in crop pollination. 
